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Preeti Shenoy, Best-selling author
May 09, 2016

Author Preeti Shenoy on Writing About Love

Text by Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena. Photograph by Narasimha Murthy

Best-selling author Preeti Shenoy talks about her various muses, her creative process and the intricacies of human nature
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Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni, books, author, Indian, Before we visit the goddess

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni talks about her latest novel, Before We Visit the Goddess, its mix of characters, and the authors who inspire her
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Head of romance giant Harlequin India, Amrita Chowdhury, Breach
February 25, 2015

In The Grip of Words

Text by Nittal Chandarana

Head of romance giant Harlequin India, Amrita Chowdhury has a penchant for thrillers. The author talks to Verve about her love of romances and her roles of author and publisher
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Sarita Mandanna, Tiger Hills, Man Asian Literary Prize winner

In The Name Of Love

Text by Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena.

Her first novel, a love story of epic dimensions, Tiger Hills, got the highest advance for a debut novelist in India and also made it to the long-list of the Man Asian Literary Prize two years ago. Sarita Mandanna interacts with Verve on how she writes about what she loves most
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Aravind Adiga, Booker Prize-winning author, Last Man In Tower, The White Tiger

‘Capturing’ Mumbai With Arvind Adiga

Text by Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena

He took the literary world by storm with his debut novel, The White Tiger, that got him global recognition. On the eve of the release of his second novel, Last Man In Tower, Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga exchanges notes with Verve
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Jaishree Misra, Author, A Scandalous Secret

The Facts About Fiction

Text by Nasrin Modak

It was in her genes and she may have juggled a few writing-related jobs for a living, but even a decade ago, little did author Jaishree Misra know that she’d be playing with words to create fiction with an underbelly of fact observes Verve
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